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Kenya Safari Holidays: Safari in Kenya Holiday Places, Spots and Parks   by Robert Finlays

Best Kenya Safari Holiday Tour Places

Kenya has more than 58 parks and reserves which have wide diversity of wildlife. These parks are the main attractions to most of the Kenyan Safari Holidays and they have 4 and 5 star lodges which offer unparallelled accommodation facilities. You are able to watch wildlife in luxury while staying in some of the best wild tented camps or wildlife lodges in Kenya. To enjoy a Kenya Safari Holiday, you will need to combine several of these animal parks since they offer a very different experience from one another. Most popular Kenya safari holidays mostly go to Masai Mara, samburu game reserves and lake nakuru and amboseli national parks. These are the most popular Kenya safari holiday parks which receive the most visitors in any given year.

Samburu Kenya Safari Holidays Tour-The Unique Experience

Samburu game reserve is located 450km North of Nairobi. You will depart nairobi early after breakfast and pass through the lush green Kikuyu highlands and the mt Kenya area. You then pass through the green wheat fields of Timau on the slopes of Mt. Kenya and finally drop into the semi arid northern Kenya region.

The Samburu area is very unlike other parks in Kenya since it has undulating hills and inselbergs that dot the horizons. These open into very wide valleys of semi arid savannah grasslands which are interrupted by short acacia trees. The River Ewaso Ngiro is hard to miss as it snakes its way through the valley floors in a serpentine green riverine forest which brings promise of life in an otherwise dry and harsh environment. Most animals in samburu are actually found near or around the river Ewaso Ngiro since its the lifeline of this area.

The animals of samburu which is to the north of the equator tend to be larger and the are also unique like the blue shanked ostrich, the reticulated giraffe, the grevy zebra, the beisa oryx, and the giraffe-like gerenuk antelope with its long extended neck and long legs. Game drives in this region are done in three game reserves including the shaba national reserve, samburu and buffalo springs game reserves.

Nakuru Park Safari Holiday Tour- The Flamingo Park

Lake nakuru is another popular Kenya safari holiday destinations due to its over 2 million flamingos that inhabit its shores. Lake Nakuru is located 160km North West of Nairobi in the rift valley system of lakes. The lake is alkaline and favours the growth of blue green algae which is in turn fed on by the flamingos. Lake nakuru was actually formed as a bird sanctuary and it has more than 450 other species of birds that frolic in the waters.

The nakuru park is a very popular urban wildlife park due to its close proximity to Nairobi and the large flocks of birds. Nakuru is also a white rhino sanctuary and its is only here that you can get some very close up views of the white rhino. The park is also famous for its easy views of the leopards and the tree climbing lions. Nakuru park is a small park at 188sqkm which means that a 4 hr game drive is enough to complete the whole park. Visits to Lake nakuru are usually for overnight stays.

Amboseli Kenya Safari Holiday Tour-The Elephants Safari Destination

Amboseli national park is 240km South West of Nairobi capital city and is located near the Kenya-Tanzania border. The park is 160sqkm in size and has the largest population density of elephants. The elephants are drawn to this park by the crystal clear waters from the Mt Kilimanjaro peak which flow in underground rivers to emerge in this park as very clean water. The elephants of amboseli are the largest attraction to this park.

Mt Kilimanjaro is a very prominent attraction to this park which is also its lifeline as it supplies the otherwise dust bowl of a park with fresh clean waters. The Mountain is the highest peak in Africa and is usually called the ceiling of Africa continent. It is also the highest free standing volcanic mountain in the world. Mt Kilimanjaro peak kibo can be seen early in the morning with its snow covered head jutting upwards into the blue space beyond the white clouds.

Masai Mara Kenya Safari Holidays Tour- The Mara Migration Safari Destination

Masai Mara is the most popular of all parks in Kenya which is located south west of Nairobi. It is 295km from Nairobi and it measures 1510sqkm in size. The game reserve is a favorite for its great abundance of wildlife and great wide open spaces which makes it very easy to view wildlife in this reserve. There is an estimated 5 million animals in this area which makes it the park with the highest density of animals in Kenya.

Masai Mara is however even more popular for its annual wildebeest migration which sees more than 3 million wildebeests and zebras cross the serengeti plains into Masai Mara and back. This is one of the biggest wildlife migrations in the world and has been named as the seventh wonder of the world. The wildebeest migration is so vast that it can be seen from the satellite images in real time basis.

Masai Mara migration Safari holidays are some of the most popular vacations in Kenya during the summer. The accommodations in masai mara are usually full in the months of July, August to October when the migration is at its peak. The best place to see the wildebeest migration is usually at the mara river crossing which is one of the most energetic and dramatic experiences as the river is swollen and crocodile infested and the wildebeest make sure to cross it with alot of pomp and noise.

These are some of the most popular Kenya safari holiday travel destinations but there are many more than offer a different experience. You can enjoy most of these in luxury or budget accommodations and an average low cost safari will cost USD 200 per day and from USD 260per day for luxury. You can find out more details on a Kenya safari holiday from a Kenyan holiday agent in nairobi.

Sojourn Safaris offers you the best Kenya safari holidays tours. To find out more on the Kenya migration Safari holidays, Trips and Travels, click here : Kenya Safari Holidays or for Masai Mara Migration 2012 Safari Holiday here: Masai Mara Migration Safari

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Sojourn Safaris offers you the best Kenya safari holidays tours. To find out more on the Kenya migration Safari holidays, Trips and Travels, click here : Kenya Safari Holidays or for Masai Mara Migration 2012 Safari Holiday here: Masai Mara Migration Safari

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